God Eater 2 Overtakes Monster Hunter 4 on Amazon Japan’s Best Sellers, Did The Vita Find its Killer Application?

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007BondAgent said:

Viper1 said:

007BondAgent said:
God Eater is pretty huge in japan, i'm expecting a 400k opening for the vita and 120k for psp

God Eater on PSP opened to 295k at the point when PSP was at its peak.  I don't see GE2 coming even half that level.

Don't forget, the game is also releasing on PSP.  That will eat into a lot of potential sales on Vita.

Ofcourse the first one wouldn't open well, it was the first game in the franchise, sequels tend to do better

Plus the psp didn't really hold back toukiden

A sequel on an increasing install base, yes, that can increase well but a sequel on a highly reduced install base will not increase upon the opening week sales of the original.  Especially when the original was on a single platform that was at its popularity peak.

GE2 will do nicely on Vita but it won't match the original on PSP.  That's not necessarily a bad thing.  Contextually for Vita's install base, it will do great.